Abdulhadi Hairan
As a translator, he has been working with several translation companies as a freelancer. He currently works with the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies in Kabul as a Research Analyst. Two of his books, including a collection of short stories, are published in Pashto. His blog is: www.abdulhadihairan.com.
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Articles by Abdulhadi Hairan
October 28, 2009
As a spokesman of Pakistan army on Saturday claimed to have recaptured Kotkai, the birthplace and stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, in the South Waziristan tribal area, the displaced civilians from that area talking to a BBC Urdu reporter described their displacement as ´an opportunity to get out of the central prison.´
July 10, 2009
To answer this serious and important question, we need to thoroughly review the facts and myths that surround the existence of terrorist safe havens in the tribal areas, their strong presence and the run-amok style activities in the settled areas and the way the government of Pakistan has been handling the situation.
June 29, 2009
Afghan Adabi Baheer, or the Writers' Association of Afghanistan, has been a platform for Afghan poets, writers, and intellectuals to read their poems, short stories and research papers, express their views on national and international issues, and discuss contemporary literary trends since it was established in Peshawar, Pakistan, some 15 years back.
June 23, 2009
Mr Abbas said that 1592 militants were killed in the ongoing operation in Swat region. One day earlier the country's Prime Minister, Syed Yousuf Reza Gilani claimed that the entire top leadership of the militants was either killed or arrested. But he could not give a satisfactory answer to the question about whereabouts of Mullah Fazlullah, the Emir of the militants in Swat whose father-in-law, Mullah Sufi Mohammad, himself a leader of another extremist group called Tehrik-e-Nifaz-Shariat Mohammadi (TNSM) was released by the government just after it came into power after the landslide elections.
June 22, 2009
Do you remember the day when you accompanied me to the village mosque where I started learning the Holy Koran from the village mullah? It was just two months later from my first prayers. You were more than happy on that day. You distributed sweets in the entire village and told them to pray that I become a mullah!